Mother of Bryan County dog attack victim arrested

The mother of a child killed in north Bryan County last month by her family's dogs was arrested Tuesday morning.

Summer Laminack, 18, was charged with cruelty to children and second-degree criminal negligence, said Bryan County Sheriff Clyde Smith. She was later released on $5,000 bond.

Laminack's daughter, 21-month-old Monica Renee Laminack, was killed at her Elm Road home March 27 after being attacked by her family's seven pit bulls and pit bull mixes.

Several other people were in the home at the time of the girl's death.

According to Smith, the child's grandmother said she was upstairs laying down when she heard the dogs fighting and barking.

"She looked out her window and yelled, 'They are killing Monica.' They, the family, all went downstairs. They had four generations living there. The two boys pulled the dogs off the baby. The baby's mother Summer picked Monica up and said, 'She's dead.'"

Monica, who would have turned 2 in June and apparently got outside by crawling through a doggy door, was unattended with the dogs. According to her family, the girl was accustomed to being around dogs.

Nine dogs in total, the seven pits plus two more that were not pits, had access to the house she lived in.

"But they drug her all over the yard. Something turned them on her. We don't know what," Smith said.

Laminack, who is represented by attorney Tom Edenfield, did not speak during the arrest and bonding procedure Smith said.

"She talked with her lawyer but other than that she didn't utter a word," he said.

Smith added that he expects no further proceedings in the case before the grand jury meets in November unless Lamianck decides to submit a plea to the court.